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From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] dm-crypt: Fix a bug of async cryption complete function
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:28:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A7DC7E.1040307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090227115638.GA24221@gondor.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:52:05PM +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
>> Herbert Xu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:56:11PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
>>>> @@ -830,7 +838,7 @@ static void kcryptd_async_done(struct cr
>>>>  		return;
>>>>  	}
>>>>  
>>>> -	mempool_free(ablkcipher_request_cast(async_req), cc->req_pool);
>>>> +	mempool_free(dmreq->req, cc->req_pool);
>>> Why do we need all this complexity? Can't just fix it by using
>>> cc->req?
>> No. There can be parallel req allocated, also cc->req can be NULL.
>> (seems that these structs are overcomplicated already:-)
> 
> Fair enough.  However we still shouldn't need to have dmreq->req
> since
> 
> 	dmreq->req == (char *)dmreq - sizeof(dmreq->req)
> 
> In fact just pass the request itself as data and derive dmreq
> from that.

Like this?

struct ablkcipher_request *req = (char *)dmreq - cc->dmreq_start;
mempool_free(req, cc->req_pool);

Yes, this should be enough. Just some nice inline function will be
better for such  pointer game...

So we need add just dmreq->ctx field now.

Milan
--
mbroz@redhat.com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-27 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-27  8:56 [BUGFIX] dm-crypt: Fix a bug of async cryption complete function Huang Ying
2009-02-27 11:41 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-27 11:52   ` Milan Broz
2009-02-27 11:56     ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-27 12:28       ` Milan Broz [this message]
2009-02-27 12:46         ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-27 13:51           ` Milan Broz
2009-02-27 14:19             ` Herbert Xu

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